1997 Evansville Otters Statistics

Frontier League (FL) - Independent
Team Record: 46-33
Finished 1st in the FL's West Division
Manager: Greg Tagert (46-33)
Location: Evansville, Indiana
Ballpark: Bosse Field
Attendance: 91,018, Avg. 2,395 in 38 home dates

1997 Evansville Otters Roster

Playoffs - Evansville Otters 2 games, Richmond Roosters 1
Finals - Canton Crocodiles 2 games, Evansville Otters 0

The Evansville Otters of the Frontier League ended the 1997 season with a record of 46 wins and 33 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.

The Otters plated 476 runs and surrendered 434 runs. David Robinson accounted for 50 RBI and topped all regular batters by connecting at a .322 clip. Tista Perri led the team with 7 wins, while Jeremy Schlee recorded a 3.09 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers. Greg Tagert served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Tista Perri	7	2	.778	3.62	16	14	0	1	0	0	82.0	87	48	33	3	21	1	41	4	0	1	358
Jeremy Schlee	6	2	.750	3.09	33	0	11	0	0	1	64.0	65	31	22	1	27	2	50	2	1	5	279
Greg Scheer	6	3	.667	1.85	33	0	22	0	0	10	39.0	22	16	8	2	21	1	46	2	0	3	160
Maurice DeConge	4	2	.667	3.86	32	1	14	0	0	4	46.7	44	26	20	2	21	0	38	1	0	0	205
Rob Murphy	3	0	1.000	4.06	37	0	7	0	0	1	44.3	54	26	20	2	14	0	32	0	0	2	195
Dave Pollak	3	2	.600	4.76	15	14	1	0	0	1	79.3	84	44	42	7	20	2	65	0	0	1	329
Todd Niemeier	3	2	.600	4.87	16	7	1	0	0	1	44.3	52	28	24	4	13	0	35	2	0	6	194
Rob Garola	3	3	.500	5.22	16	14	0	2	1	0	79.3	82	51	46	8	28	2	60	2	0	3	346
Jeff Leystra	3	4	.429	4.86	12	6	5	0	0	2	46.3	46	30	25	5	15	0	51	3	1	3	200
Mike Rodgers	3	6	.333	7.51	19	10	3	0	0	0	62.3	86	60	52	8	27	2	39	6	1	4	295
Rich Estep	2	0	1.000	4.82	20	2	7	0	0	0	28.0	31	18	15	1	16	0	28	3	0	6	131
Shawn Tipton	2	2	.500	3.95	8	6	0	0	0	0	41.0	37	21	18	7	11	0	16	3	1	0	165
Jeff Cordle	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Jason Imrisek	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Jon Stephens	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	8
Jarod Smith	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	8	6	6	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	27
Paco Garcia	0	2	.000	40.50	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	5	7	6	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	11
Mike Kass	0	3	.000	5.47	10	4	4	0	0	0	26.3	23	22	16	3	30	1	28	4	1	1	130
Totals	46	33	.582	4.58	275	79	76	3	1	20	693.3	731	434	353	56	270	12	533	33	5	35	3042

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Terry Beyna	73	326	272	55	79	8	2	2	31	12	5	43	43	.290	.398	.357	.755	97	4	7	2	2	1
Matt Cano	67	300	245	43	76	11	1	1	38	4	1	48	45	.310	.419	.376	.794	92	2	0	4	3	3
David Robinson	66	269	233	58	75	17	7	7	50	22	9	27	49	.322	.392	.545	.937	127	3	3	1	5	2
Shane Davenport	73	295	257	32	75	20	0	8	45	2	0	30	53	.292	.372	.463	.835	119	4	4	2	2	8
Bernard Caston	60	249	209	44	67	10	3	2	34	34	7	33	22	.321	.407	.426	.832	89	3	0	3	4	0
Jason Imrisek	58	223	192	33	61	13	2	7	37	6	0	22	27	.318	.388	.516	.904	99	7	2	4	3	5
Ryan Brownlee	60	232	195	38	58	5	1	0	25	19	6	22	25	.297	.378	.333	.712	65	1	4	10	1	0
Marc Motzler	72	286	237	33	54	7	3	1	39	12	3	38	45	.228	.341	.295	.636	70	3	3	7	1	0
Rich Luna	55	217	187	27	49	10	0	1	21	4	3	17	35	.262	.353	.332	.685	62	2	10	2	1	1
Eric Joseph	53	173	129	33	39	8	5	1	19	17	7	29	35	.302	.462	.465	.927	60	0	10	4	1	0
Lawrence Platz	44	144	122	21	33	6	0	2	21	1	0	19	19	.270	.361	.369	.730	45	5	0	0	3	0
Bob Perry	40	155	135	22	32	6	0	2	16	5	3	11	26	.237	.295	.326	.621	44	2	1	6	2	0
Pat Pethel	38	109	99	13	25	2	1	1	9	9	3	4	11	.253	.286	.323	.609	32	5	1	4	1	0
Mike Kass	25	43	39	6	11	1	2	1	4	1	0	4	9	.282	.349	.487	.836	19	0	0	0	0	2
Rod Griggs	20	64	54	8	9	1	0	0	3	9	0	5	16	.167	.274	.185	.459	10	0	3	2	0	1
Hal Edwards	13	39	31	1	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	7	6	.226	.359	.258	.617	8	1	0	0	1	0
Steve Green	4	12	10	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.300	.417	.400	.817	4	0	1	0	0	0
Scott Dapprich	4	16	13	4	3	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	.231	.375	.308	.683	4	0	2	0	0	0
Jeff Neal	4	11	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.273	.200	.473	2	0	0	0	0	0
John Tavares	1	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Rodgers	20	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	850	3166	2672	476	759	128	27	36	399	157	48	362	473	.284	.376	.393	.769	1049	42	51	51	30	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Shane Davenport	1B	63	513	51	6	49	.989	8.952
Bob Perry	1B	14	82	5	0	10	1.000	6.214
Lawrence Platz	1B	8	24	2	2	4	.929	3.250
Matt Cano	1B	5	12	1	0	2	1.000	2.600
Jeff Neal	1B	4	22	3	0	1	1.000	6.250
Terry Beyna	1B	2	11	2	0	0	1.000	6.500
Ryan Brownlee	2B	37	80	82	10	21	.942	4.378
Rich Luna	2B	27	55	62	5	15	.959	4.333
Hal Edwards	2B	12	19	23	7	6	.857	3.500
Eric Joseph	2B	9	7	11	0	2	1.000	2.000
Scott Dapprich	2B	4	10	11	0	2	1.000	5.250
John Tavares	2B	1	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.000
Bob Perry	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Rod Griggs	2B	1	2	2	0	1	1.000	4.000
Bernard Caston	2B	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.000
Terry Beyna	2B	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Terry Beyna	3B	64	56	107	16	12	.911	2.547
Matt Cano	3B	13	9	12	4	0	.840	1.615
Rich Luna	3B	6	3	4	1	1	.875	1.167
Steve Green	3B	2	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.500
Ryan Brownlee	3B	2	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.000
Eric Joseph	3B	1	0	1	1	0	.500	1.000
Jason Imrisek	C	54	359	50	9	1	.978	7.574	8	50	18	26.5
Lawrence Platz	C	32	184	19	6	0	.971	6.344	3	38	8	17.4
Shane Davenport	C	2	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	1	1	0	0.0
David Robinson	C	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0	0	0
Bernard Caston	CF	45						.000
Pat Pethel	CF	23						.000
Eric Joseph	CF	17						.000
Mike Kass	CF	3						.000
Rod Griggs	CF	1						.000
Ryan Brownlee	CF	1						.000
David Robinson	LF	21						.000
Matt Cano	LF	21						.000
Eric Joseph	LF	13						.000
Ryan Brownlee	LF	12						.000
Bob Perry	LF	11						.000
Mike Kass	LF	10						.000
Bernard Caston	LF	10						.000
Rich Luna	LF	4						.000
Pat Pethel	LF	2						.000
Rod Griggs	LF	1						.000
David Robinson	OF	59	96	7	4	0	.963	1.746
Bernard Caston	OF	54	87	1	3	0	.967	1.630
Matt Cano	OF	37	50	2	4	1	.929	1.405
Pat Pethel	OF	36	75	4	1	0	.988	2.194
Eric Joseph	OF	33	76	1	2	1	.975	2.333
Rod Griggs	OF	18	22	2	0	1	1.000	1.333
Ryan Brownlee	OF	14	16	0	0	0	1.000	1.143
Bob Perry	OF	12	14	0	1	0	.933	1.167
Mike Kass	OF	12	26	1	2	0	.931	2.250
Rich Luna	OF	7	2	1	1	0	.750	.429
Lawrence Platz	OF	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Rob Murphy	P	37	2	6	0	1	1.000	.216
Jeremy Schlee	P	33	3	11	2	1	.875	.424
Greg Scheer	P	33	1	11	1	0	.923	.364
Maurice DeConge	P	32	3	5	2	0	.800	.250
Rich Estep	P	20	2	4	0	0	1.000	.300
Mike Rodgers	P	19	2	15	3	2	.850	.895
Tista Perri	P	16	6	14	1	1	.952	1.250
Todd Niemeier	P	16	2	7	0	1	1.000	.562
Rob Garola	P	16	11	10	0	1	1.000	1.312
Dave Pollak	P	15	3	10	0	0	1.000	.867
Jeff Leystra	P	12	2	3	3	1	.625	.417
Mike Kass	P	10	2	4	0	1	1.000	.600
Shawn Tipton	P	8	5	9	1	0	.933	1.750
Paco Garcia	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333
Jon Stephens	P	2	0	0	0	0		.000
Jarod Smith	P	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Jason Imrisek	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Jeff Cordle	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
David Robinson	RF	38						.000
Rod Griggs	RF	17						.000
Matt Cano	RF	16						.000
Pat Pethel	RF	14						.000
Eric Joseph	RF	6						.000
Rich Luna	RF	3						.000
Lawrence Platz	RF	1						.000
Bob Perry	RF	1						.000
Ryan Brownlee	RF	1						.000
Marc Motzler	SS	72	97	215	16	43	.951	4.333
Ryan Brownlee	SS	12	17	24	6	4	.872	3.417
Lawrence Platz	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Hal Edwards	SS	1	1	1	0	1	1.000	2.000
Shane Davenport	SS	1	0	0	0	0		.000
Terry Beyna	SS	1	1	0	1	0	.500	1.000
Totals		1305	2080	826	122	187	.960	2.227	12	89	26	22.6

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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